Eyeglass-holder.



W. H. BRADSHAW.

EYEGLASS HOLDER.

' APPLICATION FILED MAB-L10. 1909.

Patnted Dec. '7, 1909.

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UNITED s'rA' r s A T OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. nnansnaw, or NYAGK, Nswfizonx ma eLnss-notnaa.

Specification hf letters latent Patented'Dec. 7. 1909.

To all whom it may concern: I

it kndwn that 1, WILLIAM BRAD- SHAW, a citizen of the United. States, residing at Highmount avenue, Nyack, county of Rockland, State of New York, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Eyeglass-Holders, fully described and represented in "the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.=

The present invention relates to such eye'- lass-holders as are divided in halves and urnished with a hinge-lid which must be opened to remove the glasses therefrom;

and the oljcpct of the invention is to furnish such hing holders with an interior chamber for retaining a polishing cloth or other material therein; the cover of the chamber lying beneath the eyeglasses when in the holder so that the cpver requu'es no fastening, but is held closed by the eyeglass as. remams 1n the holder.

long as the eyeglass The eyeglass is, of course, case whenever it requires cleaning, permits the cover of the chamber to be opened, giving access tothe olisher. S ectacles with skeleton hookows are 0 ten carried in such an eyeglass case, but the invention relates to the case whether it be used for carrying an eyeglass orspectacles.

The invention will be understoo by refremoved from the erence to the annexed drawing, in which- .to close uponthe flanges b and .0. Such lids are usual y formed with a metallic spring hinge, but concealed by a velvet lining to which the letter e is applied.

The details of constructionof the holder are immaterial, as the new feature consists of the chamber or recess f formed within the holder, .as shown in Figs. 2 and 3,-and

rovided with a cover 9. to retain a cleaner 1n the chamber.

The lid d is shown in Fig. 3 with a flexible I lining h and such lining extended over the a polisher a which a lication filed lemme, lace. s r amaaaatea.

top of the cover g,

afar, as shown in Fig. piece a is shown upon cover, for lifting the same when opening the 3. Al. tongue or thumbforming a hinge therethe free edge of the chamber f. The lid requires no fastening, as the eyeglass or, spectacles lie upon it when T in the holder and' ;k eep it closed upon the chamber. No additional expense is incurfe forming the holder with the deprslsipn or recess f to form a chamber, theobst of the cover g is entirely nominal, and the holder is therefore provided with a chamber and cover at very trifling expense. The

user of the lasses'is thus enabled to keep from dust or. dirt, in the chamber in the holder where the glasses themselves are stored when not in use.

- The edges of the recess f are shown sloped inwardly from the bottom a, which not only facilitates the stamping of the recess in the metal of the holder, but enables such edges to support the cover 9 so that it may be ways convenient for use, free fitted therein 'flush with the bottom of the holder, so as not to prmjfude within 'the holder and occupy any of the space intended for the glasses. The lining h which com-' monly extends over the lid and the bottom of the holder is thus enabled to fit smoothly over the cover 9 and to "form the hinge therefor.

' In the class of eyeglass-holders shown in Fig. 2, one side of the holder is commonly made with a fiat bottom and flanges at the edges upon which a cover can close, and the cover is sometimes made fiat and sometimes arched in the center to clear the nose-piece of the glasses as shown in Fig.*2, but when it is made flat either; side may be regarded as the bottom and the opposite side as the I cover, and it would obviously be immaterial whether the recess for the polisher be stamped within one or the other, provided it 0 ns u that the l1d of the recess requires no fason the interior of the holder so tener but is in contact with the s ectacles or eyeglasses when carried in the ho derso that it is held closed automatically.

Having thus set forth the nature of the invention what is claimed herein is:

1. An eyeglass holder having two sides with an interidr chamber formed in one of the'sides to receive a polisher for the glasses,

and a cover hinged within'such side to conline the polisher'in the chamber, the cover med in the holder.

being held closed by the glasses when car 2. 'An eyeglass holder" havin two sides oonnected by a hinge, one of sue sides having a chamber opening within the holder, a cover fitted to the insideof the holder con "taining sueh chamber and the lid of the holder having a lining h extended over such cover and secured to the same to form a hinge for the cover.

3. An eyeglre-ss holder having two sides connected by a inge one of such sides having a chamber openin Within the ho1der,'a cover hinged to the, ottom' of the holder inside the same near the bin e of its lid, 15 such cover having the thuml i-piece z' for lifting the same.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set y hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. WILLIAM BRADSHAW.

Witnesses:

THOMAS CRANE, IJEE 

